Here's what we were working on in the classroom :
Reading : Now that we've gotten all of the beginning of the year routines and procedures out of the way, we can really buckle down and get working on reading strategies and skills. Last week, we started our second reading unit, which is all about 'just right books' and decoding strategies. Over the course of the last week, the students learned all about 'just right books' and why it's important that they spend the majority of their time reading books that are 'just right.' This week, we'll start learning about what to do when the students get stuck on tricky words (aka, decoding strategies).
Writing : The students published their first writing pieces! Last week, the students colored the pictures and shared their pieces with their classmates. This week, we'll start our next writing unit, which called Small Moments. I'll explain what that is next week. :)
Math : The main focus of math last week was to continue to develop the students' knowledge about and understanding of the complements on ten. By now, most of the students are fairly familiar with the number pairs that go together to make ten.
Science : We started our first science unit of the year last week! This unit, we'll be learning all about the sun, moon, and stars and that patterns that naturally occur.
Here are some pictures from last week: